This evening the last large remaining block of votes was reported from Maricopa County in Arizona, and in the wake of those results most news organizations have now called Arizona for Biden. His lead is currently 11.4K votes, or 49.4% to 49.1%; my understanding is that a mandatory recount would only occur if the margin is less than 0.1%.

Arizona makes the score 290-217 for Biden, with Georgia (16) and North Carolina (15) yet to be called. Neither state’s reported vote total has moved noticeably since yesterday.

From a just-published Maggie Haberman article at the New York Times: “[I]nstead of conceding … [Trump] is floating one improbable scenario after another for staying in office while he contemplates his uncertain post-presidency future. There is no grand strategy at play… By dominating the story of his exit from the White House, he hopes to keep his millions of supporters energized and engaged for whatever comes next.”

I hadn’t paid any attention to what happened in the Minnesota State Senate elections until just now. Going into the election the Republicans held a 35-32 advantage, which made Minnesota the only state in which different parties controlled different houses of the legislature. The Democrats did manage to flip 3 seats, but the Republicans flipped 2; so the end result is a 34-33 Republican edge, and continued potential for gridlock.